The punishments of being top predator.

(BTW….if you get reading & think, “this is crazy, she’s just picking on a company that’s helping us all to live, you should know that SIX European countries have banned Monsanto GMO corn. SIX. Yet our govt still lets us eat it here. You gotta wonder about priorities.)

“So the facts are as follows: We eat corn and corn derivatives that have been genetically modified, which has been banned for being unsafe in other countries — the FDA has not done independent testing on the health effects of at least three types of corn that we are eating, and have instead taken Monsanto’s word for the fact that they are safe. Monsanto resisted releasing their data to independent researchers — environmental groups had to sue to get it. Once it was released and analyzed by one group of scientists, they wrote a dense study in a non-peer reviewed journal and found statistically significant amounts of organ failure in the rats in Monsanto’s own study. Consumers often have no way of knowing clearly if they are eating genetically modified food.”

What a wonderful time we live in. I swear, humans are the total opposite of the hive mind. The more of them get together, the stupider they become. Give us a big, fecund globe & we breed like flies, gnawing thru everything in our path like a cloud of schizophrenic locusts. Then we use technology to squash predators, weather, & sickness, so nature can no longer level our numbers. Finally, when we need a way to feed all those people, we twank the genes of corn at the genetic level, a new achievement for the science of humans, & the result is – die anyway of toxins our bodies never evolved to handle.

I can hear nature now…she’s laughing a silky, knowing, sardonic snicker.

The other day I was having a conversation with someone about conspiracy theories, & how the problem is, there is a continuum, & on that line, some conspiracies are totally believable & very likely to be true, others are just crazy, but there’s this vast area in the middle that could be true. Many humans in power seem to be motivated by ego, greed, avarice. We are all so jaded because every day, we hear of yet more instances in which some person or persons goes after what they want no matter who it hurts. The wall street & banking crash would be an easy example here. Knowing that people can be utterly callous & malevolently apathetic pigs, how can you look at any nefarious plan & call it too extreme to be considered?

This Monsanto organ failure from corn thing is a classic example of the disconnect we’ve all somehow worked into our realities. If I invited you over for dinner & fed you something that was a little bit poisoned, how would you respond? Would you call the cops? Would you go on facebook & everywhere & tell people I’m insane & not to eat my food? Would you get treated & send me a medical bill? Or would you say, eh, what are you gonna do…can that really be true?….she wouldn’t do that…sure I’m a little tired but I feel mostly fine….

The idea that a seed company with worldwide reach could create a food-like substance designed to turn maximum possible profits while keeping people just fed enough is too huge to grasp. It’s unreal. You think, how could that happen? Surely if that were true the government would step in. Here’s a thought – I think they already have. Let’s think about it. The problem is, as with so many of our current ills, everything is so intertwined. If you get rid of GMO corn, crop yields will go way down, which means less high fructose corn syrup & feed for industrial meat lots. That’s certainly healthier, but then how will the cash poor lower classes get their calories? Right now they get most of them thru corn syrup. And how will the farmers get by if they grow less corn? They only make it now because of govt subsidies. The govt, out govt (they tell us) knows full well that corn syrup causes health problems. Yet instead of sitting on Monsanto – this GMO corn organ failure thing is only one of their many sins – the govt gives farmers subsidies to grow the stuff! Then they all go to washington & dick around about how to fix the health care crisis. This is so broke, I don’t even know where to start to fix it.

I eat meat, not a lot but some. This latest news has made me realize that all, not just most, of the meat I eat from now on will need to be organically grown. The why? Industrially raised livestock are fed corn. Hm. Do you think that’s GMO corn? You betcha. And as we’ve learned from eating big fish, toxins get concentrated as you go up the food chain. I don’t really want a concentrated load of Monsanto goodness when I eat a hamburger.

Here’s a good article about avoiding GMO food. And here’s a page where you can get a non-GMO shopping guide. Remember that even organic food can include GMO ingredients. It only has to be 95% organic to get the label. So check for 100% organic or quiz the company.